"I like sayers of no better than..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Poverty consist in feeling poor.”

“You've got to be taught, to hate and fear,You've got to be taught, from year to year,It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear,You've got to be carefully taught.”

“Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.”

“Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?”

“It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.”

“For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know.”

“Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.”

“Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.”

“There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. You cannot talk yourself into it or rouse it by straining at the emotions or by dedicating yourself solemnly to the service of mankind. Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself. This conviction will not come through condemnations, through hating oneself, through calling self love bad names in the universe. It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love.”